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The Gathering

The Drift

The Burning Girls

The chilling and spine-tingling Sunday Times bestseller

The Other People

'Britain's female Stephen King'  Daily Mail

The Taking of Annie Thorne

The Chalk Man

A Sliver of Darkness

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All hail the queen of scream. A Sliver of Darkness is C.J. Tudor at her spine-tingling, nightmare-inducing best. Read it if you dare...

This unsettling collection of stories from a writer often called the 'British Stephen King' deftly inverts the banal and unremarkable to reveal their underlying horror

Beautifully barbaric, creepy as hell and crammed with barbed wit, Tudor can say more in one short story than many writers can manage in a full length novel

Brilliantly creepy and perfectly executed

A decadent and phantasmagorical descent into the dark chasm where I first fell in love with horror fiction. Told with real heart along with daemonic savagery, these are stories to luxuriate with in the tenebrous

If you like my stuff, you'll like this

Some writers have it, and some don't. C. J. Tudor has it big time

This Halloween prepare to be terrified with C. J. Tudor's first collection of short stories. 
 
A creak of the floorboard, a shiver down your spine, the feeling that you're not alone... 
 
These eleven twisted tales of the macabre from the bestselling author of The Chalk Man are your perfect companions as the nights draw in...if you're brave enough.

PREPARE TO BE TERRIFIED THIS HALLOWEEN WITH C. J. TUDOR'S BONE-CHILLING COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES 
 
'All hail the queen of scream. C.J. Tudor at her spine-tingling, nightmare-inducing best. Read it if you dare . . .' CHRIS WHITAKER 
 
'This unsettling collection of stories from a writer often called the 'British Stephen King' deftly inverts the banal and unremarkable to reveal their underlying horror' METRO 
 
'Beautifully barbaric, creepy as hell and crammed with barbed wit' JOHN MARRS 
 
A creak of the floorboard, a shiver down your spine, the feeling that you're not alone . . . 
_________ 
 
Join a group of survivors who wash up on a deserted island only to make a horrifying discovery. 
 
Meet a cold-hearted killer who befriends a strange young girl at a motorway service station. 
 
Travel along eerie country lanes in a world gone dark, enter a block of flats with the most monstrous of occupants and accompany a ruthless estate agent on a house sale that goes apocalyptically wrong. 
 
These eleven twisted tales of the macabre from the bestselling author of The Chalk Man and The Burning Girls are your perfect companions as the nights draw in . . . 
 
If you're brave enough. 
_________ 
 
'A decadent and phantasmagorical descent into the dark chasm where I first fell in love with horror fiction. Told with real heart along with daemonic savagery, these are stories to luxuriate with in the tenebrous' MATT WESOLOWSKI 
 
'Eleven tales that are not all of the spine-tingling variety but are definitely Stephen King territory. Each story has a satisfying conclusion and a bit of a twist' Scotsman 
 
Praise for C. J. Tudor: 
 
'If you like my stuff you'll like this' Stephen King 
 
'C. J. Tudor is terrific. I can't wait to see what she does next' Harlan Coben 
 
'Britain's female Stephen King' Daily Mail 
 
'A mesmerizingly chilling and atmospheric page-turner' J.P. Delaney 
 
'Her books have the ability to simultaneously make you unable to stop reading while wishing you could bury the book somewhere deep underground where it can't be found. Compelling and haunting' Sunday Express 
 
'Some writers have it, and some don't. C. J. Tudor has it big time' Lee Child 
 
'A dark star is born' A. J. Finn

C. J. Tudor’s love of writing, especially the dark and macabre, started young. When her peers were reading Judy Blume, she was devouring Stephen King and James Herbert. Over the years she has had a variety of jobs, including trainee reporter, radio scriptwriter, dog walker, voiceover, television presenter and copywriter. 
 
She is now the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Chalk Man, The Taking of Annie Thorne, The Other People, The Burning Girls and The Drift. All of her books are in development or optioned for TV, and The Burning Girls debuted on Paramount Plus in 2023. She is also the author of a short story collection, A Sliver of Darkness.

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